Worse than the Saturday Night Massacre. Thousands of federal employees fired today and tomorrow.

As you read this, thousands and thousands of federal employees are being fired. Today, the federal (Office of Personnel Management) OPM sent an email to all federal agencies that they can start terminating all federal probationary employees....

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@wdlindsy What are all these now ex-federal workers going to do? This could damage local economies too.
@alexproe Yes, every one of those persons is a human being with a complex human life, and almost all of them have commitments to others including families. The effects of these massive sudden layoffs are horrendous on all of these human beings, and the ripple effect into the whole society will be horrible.